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Only by keeping your head down as you pick a precarious way through the minefield of human existence can you hope to survive, paying homage to cruelly capricious gods who often enough scarcely deserve human respect, let alone religious veneration. The very human powers which might allow you to find…

[...] Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism is for Karl Marx. [...]

[...] Austerity is what led to the rise of national selfishness and tensions around national identity. Social development with equity is how hatred will be defeated.

[...] Africa doesn't need aid; it simply needs an international legal system that can protect it from permanent pillage.

A particularly interesting case is that of Germany and France, which in 1945 found themselves with public debts of around two years’ worth (200 percent) of GDP, levels even higher than Greece or Italy today. By the early 1950s those debts had fallen to less than 30 percent of GDP. Obviously, such a…